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University of Galway will host a four-day exhibition exploring daily life in Gaza through personal testimony, photography, video, letters and children’s artwork. The exhibition centres on the experiences of Palestinian entrepreneur, writer and public speaker Shirene Yaseen, whose family remains in Gaza.

University of Galway will host a four-day exhibition exploring daily life in Gaza through personal testimony, photography, video, letters and children’s artwork. The exhibition centres on the experiences of Palestinian entrepreneur, writer and public speaker Shirene Yaseen, whose family remains in Gaza.

On July 1, Ireland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months, and for the first time, housing will sit near the top of that agenda. That is not a coincidence, and it is not just an Irish story. Across Europe, the conversation about housing shortages has shifted. It is no longer framed primarily as a social issue. It is now being framed as an economic competitiveness issue, and that change in framing is hugely significant.

When a neighbourhood pub changes hands these days, there is always concern that it may be closed and transformed into apartments, or another commercial concern, denying the community a place to congregate, console and celebrate.

We are standing at the crossroads. That is the only honest way to describe where Ireland’s property market stands in mid-2026, caught between the immovable forces of scarcity, grinding construction inflation, and an affordability ceiling that is closing in on an entire generation of would-be buyers. Something has to give. The question is what and when.

When a neighbourhood pub changes hands these days, there is always concern that it may be closed and transformed into apartments, or another commercial concern, denying the community a place to congregate, console and celebrate.

Six weeks ago in this column, I described the approval of the N6 Galway City Ring Road as potentially the most consequential planning decision for Galway’s housing market in a generation. I meant every word of it. The relief felt across the region when An Coimisiún Pleanála finally issued that decision in April was real and it was earned, the product of more than 30 years of planning, campaigning, legal battles, and hard money spent.

Following two sell-out years, Best Dressed at Brunch returns to The Hardiman Hotel for its third consecutive year, cementing its place as one of Galway Race Week’s most anticipated fashion events.

Property insights by Johnny Gannon, Fair Deal Property

The Irish construction sector is experiencing a fundamental shift that deserves far more attention than it's currently receiving. After years of post-pandemic recovery and ambitious national housing targets, we're now witnessing a slowdown driven not by falling demand — demand remains exceptionally strong — but by something far more problematic: the economics of development are breaking down.